Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110209:05:10:00
You. you want to talk about balancing the power of the individual versus the power of the government? sort of doesn't get more fundamental than that. republicans all say they are small government libertarian conservatives. but what they have done when they have power is authoritarian big government stuff. that's true whether or not democrats went along with them or whether they undid this when they had the chance. this is all republican initiated policy, and not just on national security, it is culture war, too. the government stepping in to sensor textbooks after the district of columbia deci...